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with. heading to a new level as the chief points to progress on the issue of. germany agrees to supply the forces in libya with munitions enjoying criticism for deviating from its original position on intervention speculation that's being pressured by. removed from the un a war crimes court proceedings the former general is facing genocide charges. following.

from moscow where just. a welcome to the program. chief hopes that russia and the alliance could reach an agreement on missile defense by next may however the russian side has warned the dialogue is moving too slowly. has more from the city of sochi where the talks are being held. it has been russia's concern for a very long time now russia doesn't want an arms race and if nato is to place its anti-missile defense shield in europe and then trying to sell defense shield that's going to be covering it big part of russian russia's territory and then of course an arms race exactly what's going to happen according to present the great if we could see it starting by as soon as two thousand and twenty russia and the united states have signed strategic arms reduction treaty specially for the purpose of preventing an arms race and this a.m.d. seems to be an apple of discord at exactly going to do the opposite and we never should. we would agree a mission the french over my it's all even in

a few months. this is too important for all of which. the gianluca missile defense is going as fast and not as easy as many hoped it would off the lisbon summit however this is going on and today we are talking about how russia sees further work in these fields and the rumor is that president is going to make a harsh statement today on nato slowing down the process of negotiations on a joint anti-missile defense shield in europe russia and boyd to nato. speaking i had over russia a nato summit has been saying that it's now time for nato members to make suggestions when it comes to a possibility of a joint and missile defense shield in europe together with washer as russia has already made steps forward in that direction but none of them seem to have been accepted of course the issue of nature's operation in libya with also be widely discussed to be there was and has been saying that he believes and ground operation

could be just around the corner in the corner in libya and that operation will only prolong this conflict and severely worsen the situation in the region in general and president is meeting with president jacob zuma who on behalf of the african union will be discussing the problem of libya with the russian president as russia's position on how to bring peace to libya is much closer to the position of african union members that's the position of the nato countries. and tell me another couple of reporting right there from sochi president jimmy truman here that was also attending the summit hoping to give some impetus to the talks will be crossing live to sochi in about an hour's time expected to take the floor to speak. well as the russian nato council discusses the action in libya the alliance is running short on bombs and germany which has agreed to make up the shortfall for the controversial asterix the move comes despite berlin and never

regionally backing the operation and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in position as artie's arena reports of berlin's attempt to have its cake and eat it too may not be proving very successful. with more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of sales to drop where there is demand there is supply in this case germany has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin has of saved from voting in favor of the un security council resolution on libya and move that surprised some and angered others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans may not want to participate but are they have decided that position does not preclude them actually subserve lying weapons in this case or assistance some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members particularly the united states friends in the u.k.

to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first hand. you know ministries toward the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's a very bad conflict it was started by the cia and it's a dirty business don't go there so this is why you voted with russia and china now the backlash from washington is so tough obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision aside from peer pressure. or germany may be lured by the possible financial benefits of making its weapons available for natives use in libya probably germany will get paid for delivering these arms to other counts but that is normal practice between countries even between nato countries. out of the twenty eight nato members only eight are actively participating in libya with civilian deaths to which nato recently admitted to a shortage of weapons and the ever relentless more market duffy still at the helm

the coalition may be facing just the beginning of its problems. berlin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has disappointed nato by refusing to support the mission in libya in march on the other by agreeing to supply bombs it may now lose friends in other high places and whatever the real reasons for its contradictory policy may be germany could find that by trying to please everyone it may end up pleasing no one it is a go score to. what after you have spoken exclusively to colonel gadhafi his son who believes that nato just wants to feast on libya's riches. this country is a piece of cake rich guys or you and we have more than one hundred million dollars deposits abroad so we have to show you this thing that it. is not good as we recall it is the only obvious to go between.

and we can. assume that you can check out a full version of this exclusive interview on our website at odyssey dot com. well the judge at the hague tribunal has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of iraq. that's after the court refused to perspire in the hearing at the request of the former bosnian general what it was then ordered out of the courtroom for interrupting the judge and speaking out of turn has threatened to boycott the hearing complaining he hadn't been able to choose his own defense lawyer more than a month after his arrest was accused of ordering the massacre of thousands of bosnian muslims in the town of a strip and it's but it's kind of a nut about reports there are many serbs to feel the international criminal court's only out to get justice for one side in the conflict. liquid little town of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina who looks at dilip you houses are being built

people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and a church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixteen years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the us love war and separate needs to became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today and the morial for the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base the sort of thing it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists who get boston from the bosnian capital of. what the tourist arm shown are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around the state of being it's a region. where. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these with entire families of murdered serb civilians only get

visited by the very few remaining survivors. romney comes here all the time his entire family lives here he says a bosnian muslim general is responsible for his best about you know that i was only nine years old when us here or each took away everything i had in life the first he killed my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows how or why i survived. but even though but on a survive his loss just like that of thousands of people here is being ignored or each was at the hague tribunal and i was supposed to be a witness in his trial but in the end me in about thirty other witnesses was simply custer side they didn't call us didn't ask what happened to our families and the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the balkan war so heinous atrocities

visited on all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided in blaming the serbs the purpose is to set the stage and create a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions which in the occurred in considerable number of the math in it so that so-called precedent can be traced through the years and into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and most recently libya have all played unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones but it is very important in the creation of the. scenario to make sure that in the minds of most people. was drawn aside which was preventable but for whatever reasons the so-called

international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from severing its it to benghazi via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destination castros are about r t bosnia and herzegovina. still ahead for you this hour here on our braced it's a breach of the blockade look at what's in store for the aid flotilla after greece bans pro palestinian activists from setting sail from its courts. and animal hearts saving human lives russian doctors give new life to a young girl by implanting a unique artificial vowels made from a pig's heart. well over one hundred forty activists will face trial in belarus after they were detained during an anti-government protest on

sunday when it's police used tear gas and beat activists as they tried to round up the latest silent demonstration marked only by clapping. reports. sunday march twentieth independence day for belarus but the celebration turned sour with several demonstrations of the opposition dispersed by the police wender stand that there were several demonstrations all throughout the day and all of them were dispersed by the authorities sometimes using google force eyewitnesses say that the latest of those rallies in front of the central train station in minsk was dispersed using tear gas against the crowd when your stand several journalists were detained but were later released by the authorities and over one hundred forty people remain in detention this is of course not the first time this something like that happens in belarus for the past several weeks belarus has used got used to these kind of protests these protests are not don't have a political director logical connotation people are organizing silent marches and

the only thing they do to voice their protest against the government's actions is clapping. clearly this is something you see this form of protest was invented in the social networks on the internet but the government is now trying to do everything to fight these these protests were understand that the protesters are demanding that one of europe's longest standing leaders alexander lukashenko must stand down the crowd is unhappy with the government's actions in the latest financial crisis and brother was i'd like to remind our viewers that over the past two months berlin was has been plunged into deep financial turmoil with this currency devaluation was two fold in the space of just several weeks so the tension is clearly mounting in this post soviet state where understand according to several bell russian bloggers that protest might die down for another month for three or four weeks or so but in august they are expected to intensify again and we of

course be keeping track of all the details happening in this state. the reporting right now palestinian activists say they are determined to deliver humanitarian aid to gaza despite the greek government banning their ships from leaving port. they staged a hunger strike and a protest rally against the ruling they also reportedly rejected a suggestion by the greek government to send aid it's garza u n supervision israel has been warning against any attempt by the activists to break the gaza blockade a similar mission a year ago ended with nine people being killed in an attack by israeli commandos british activist david help and he was organized humanitarian relief efforts in gaza on several occasions told r.t. how his own vessel experienced the wrath of israeli forces in two thousand and eight here's a preview of what's to come in about twenty minutes time. we were trying to get to

gaza on the third day of the bombardment and invasion so called operation. and we were high speed of about sixty six miles off the coast of haifa in the dark five thirty in the morning. and i'm quite certain that the intention was to drown this i believe in speaking the truth about this war because we're dealing with people being tormented for sixty three years. it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow barack obama was a recently announced afghanistan drawdown plan has been slammed by republicans they claim it's risky to pull out thirty three thousand troops by the end of the next summer but artie's lauren lyster reports here as talk of change intensifies over america's military plan in the country many still believe that nothing will change

at all. the aftermath of a taliban attack in kabul. a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners earlier this year taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests storm a guest house used by u.n. staffers. last year another attack on hotels this is rather every year. examples are strewn through the near decade war familiar aftermath we have any pay down here in the south only now americans heard this declaration before news of the blast we're starting this drawdown from a position of strength about u.s. plans to begin pulling troops out of afghanistan but there are declarations on the ground from afghan activists of military might that's left a different mark them all close enough to come by a completion democracy never come by military invasion democracy never by cluster bomb by white phosphorus by muscle car by bumping our wedding parties and didn't

washington talk of winding down war in one country does not wind down talk of tackling the global terrorist threat as the focus seems to shift to neighbors should be refocusing resources on pakistan yemen somalia parts of north africa and other locations i've always believed pakistan is more central to what happens in afghanistan a change in the guard at the department of defense with robert gates retiring and former cia chief leon panetta getting sworn in signals this change of course to critics who know the difference between between him and robert gates and for afghanistan we now hear a presidential pledge to pull thirty three thousand troops out by september two thousand and twelve fully we're covering the surge i announced at west point well it certainly sounds like what the american people would like to hear for the first time ever a majority want u.s. troops out of afghanistan as soon as possible fifty six percent while thirty nine percent want troops there until the situation is stabilized you can see the trend

is really flip flopped but what is the reality of obama's plans for troop withdrawal well that thirty three thousand he's calling for is a minority of the one hundred thousand american troops that are there that's not including another forty two thousand nato troops and ninety thousand department of defense contractors meanwhile. the u.s. has reiterated a long term commitment to the country there certainly has been an agreement that following two thousand and fourteen there will be some kind of continuing presence . of presence and financial burden some see as permanent observers believe u.s. bases are in the forever future loren mr r.t. washington d.c. . just a little bit later here on r.t. we'll be bringing you the revelations of a military journalist who spent a year in iraq and interviewed hundreds of u.s. soldiers and that's in a special report coming up in three hours time. it's been in the year in iraq as a military journalist. ways. there is to waste their time.

killed. twenty seven days to publicize he invited. started to have a dialogue. true to the slow. i don't know twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. let's check out some other world news for you in brief now in thailand a new five party coalition government has been formed which will bring the

country's first ever female prime minister to power it's after the opposition won a landslide victory in sunday's general election attending a clear majority of seats in the parliament its leader forty four year old. is the sister of the country's exiled leader toppled in an army koofi five years ago it's hoped the election will end the country's long running political process. a major gas pipeline in egypt has been hit by an explosion are cutting supplies to israel and jordan the blast rocked the facility just fifty kilometers from israel's border the one on the one hand responsibility it is at the time it's been targeted since an uprising toppled president mubarak in february. of venezuelan president hugo chavez will not be able to work up to hof he's likely stay in cuba for continued cancer treatment. chavez's opponents have accused the government of not providing enough information about the president's condition to leaders

illness has also raised questions about whether he will be fit to run for reelection next year. while it's a groundbreaking and heart fixing new procedure russian assertions of throwing a lifeline to a young girl who suffer from a rare heart defect they have provided her with a unique transplant with a valve from a pig's heart in the first operation of its kind. never has more on this. only chance for survival every now and surgeon is employed think a groundbreaking artificial valve made from a pig's heart into the chest of twenty four year old who has a rare and life threatening heart defect the valve invented by russian surgeons has never been used before after three hours the operation is complete. you see ration itself is a success we need some time to see how the patient recovers but in any case her life before was unbearable. literally is employed came from this farm outside of

moscow earlier surgeons had to sort through hundreds of pigs and cows hearts to find one that can be used as a. it was almost impossible to find the right donor for the new model so they found it tailor made solution even before they were born each one of these cows was matched their particular patient who's waiting on a less than moscow now since then the way that they've been fed every single part of their lifestyle has been carefully monitored so when the time comes they become the perfect donor the owner of the farm alexander kind of was a multimillionaire entrepreneur with two years ago he sold all of his businesses and retired to the countryside to graze the most ecologically clean farm possible he gives away his animals hearts for nothing this was a way that we were just so proud we were helping save lives i never. but we doing this. once the heart is removed from the animal it's taken to this hospital lab

here at the sterilized and all the parts of the valve are sown together biological valves are often superior to traditional mechanical models and don't require the patient to take drugs for their lifetime the lab director is hoping more successful implants will encourage health authorities to invest more funds in them coarseness thought so that only two or three produces the biological volves in the whole of russia and it's not enough right now people here died before they can get to the treatment two weeks have passed and that is out of damage unseaworthy it's just i feel wonderful i feel like i have a life and plan to return to my job and i want to have children. doctors say that natalia should be completely healthy in six months and hope she'll be the first of thousands to receive the lifesaving transplant either a garage r.t. moscow. right now after a short break is the business news with you. those

undeveloped got a. little palate the international sanctions has to do takes place in prose on july ninth and tenth. the best live introductions by russian designers in the most beautiful just cities of central russia. this is a very it's a little unfair children's function shows slums like presiding over the festival. fashion festival you're drawn to this is. found a very warm welcome to the business update russia has resumed electricity supplies to belarus offer it paid its energy bill in full russian call a generator interop pulled the plug on a crisis hit by the us last wednesday with the country owing fifty four million dollars the company promised to restore supply as us soon as it got the money

however you took into raw ovid dangerous new energy delivers due to technical problems russia provides twelve percent of better was at it just to meet. the world just seeing a major shift towards gas as the predominant fossil fuel to allow for maize uyghur rise in gas prices as a result but lets you know what capital size the company would do well to use the spike to its advantage. i don't expect the gas price will be you know duplicating the hike in the crude price but it will probably reach as much as sixty or seventy percent of this price change so if the for example gas bromates a certain goodwill discount to west european customers will be discounted but i am saying not trying to keep up with the hike in the world natural gas but be a little bit one step behind this hike it would be

a good point for western parts to feel like more more friendly i'm completely new a new guest from contracts and brushes getting access to one of the largest coal deposits in the world a consortium led by russian railways has what tended to develop a fast deposit in mongolia the project is expected to generally billions of dollars for the companies involved apart from russian railways the consortium includes farms from japan and korea the decision is still to be approved by the main goal impala meant it's in line with the goal is efforts to export the line of russia's railways and. let's take a look at the markets now oil has slightly retreated from a against the market digests contrast to data from the world's two biggest oil consumers on fuel demand prices are being encouraged by european policymakers proving an amorphous a bailout for greece and why strong to us accommodate a friday lunch on the other hand soft manufacturing from china and ongoing concerns

over europe's debt crisis are keeping traders cautious lights which is trading at around ninety five dollars per barrel one hundred branches that one hundred and eleven dollars. european stock markets higher though most banking stocks a losing ground not stop just standard and pull such a plan to roll over the greek debt would likely be considered a selective default to. russia stocks climbing for a fifth street. session that size world to europe also rise alone payout for greece is a speculation that huntress crisis will derail the region's economic recovery let's now have a check of some of the individual shermans on my six most energy may just down the solid counts from around the course all percent in the rads banking stocks up for so under pressure with the dollar over one percent bucking the trend is up to boston itself over one and a healthy sense of the sales of larger cars rose by a third in the first half of the year. ok that's all we have time for knowledge

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